As I mirror on the unbelievable power and groundbreaking bulletins from Cisco Stay, one of many overarching themes continues to resonate deeply with me: Together with our prospects and companions, Cisco is not simply speaking about AI Infrastructure, we’re actively constructing it.
We’re all seeing the world of labor quickly evolve. It’s changing into more and more distributed, powered by AI, and hyper-connected. This transformation, whereas thrilling, additionally brings unprecedented calls for on our networks and, by extension, on the extremely gifted IT groups who handle them. The sheer quantity of visitors development and the emergence of latest safety issues throughout campus, department, and industrial networks are challenges that require a essentially new strategy.
That’s precisely what we achieved at Cisco Stay. The improvements, buyer conversations, demos, and trainings we unveiled characterize a really vital leap ahead for our prospects and your entire trade. We redefined the chances of community operations for this new period, prioritizing intelligence and ease … whereas remodeling the position of safe connectivity right into a foundational pillar for AI infrastructure within the office.
AgenticOps
Our imaginative and prescient for AgenticOps is to proactively aid you handle and troubleshoot your networks, remodeling the way in which you’re employed by inserting AI on the very middle of your expertise.
On the coronary heart of AgenticOps lies a really exceptional innovation: the Cisco Deep Community Mannequin. This isn’t simply one other giant language mannequin; it’s an LLM purpose-built for the distinctive complexities of actual networks. Educated on Cisco’s many years of unparalleled networking experience, our Deep Community Mannequin persistently outperforms general-purpose fashions, delivering higher than 20% increased precision and accuracy on networking duties, all whereas being leaner in dimension. This purpose-built intelligence is a game-changer.
AI Canvas
We additionally launched AI Canvas, a revolutionary new software that leverages the facility of the Cisco Deep Community Mannequin to immediately create customized dashboards and pull collectively knowledge and visualizations on the fly. Think about the seamless collaboration this permits between NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps groups — a real unification of insights.
Subsequent Gen Networking Units
To make sure our prospects have the bodily infrastructure to assist this AI-driven future, we introduced a full portfolio of next-generation networking units particularly designed to fulfill the calls for of AI workloads. That is the most important refresh of our core networking units in no less than a decade, and I couldn’t be prouder of what our groups have completed.
Cisco’s Management
Why are we so enthusiastic about this new period? As a result of no different vendor can match the breadth of our capabilities throughout switching, routing, wi-fi, and Industrial IoT for campus, department, and industrial use instances. Our prospects want safe community materials that join every little thing with increased bandwidth and decrease latency, addressing their wants for sophistication, scale, and ease. Cisco is the AI infrastructure firm that’s uniquely positioned to ship this.
Operational simplicity, particularly with AgenticOps, is paramount. Within the period of agentic AI, organizations might want to function their networks at machine scale, but with shut human-agent interplay. Improvements like AI Canvas and our new Cisco Cloud Management show how we’re uniquely able to correlating cross-domain knowledge and making use of refined AI capabilities educated on data distinctive to Cisco. With Cisco Cloud Management, IT groups will be capable of execute cross-product workflows, proactively establish and resolve points, and handle infrastructure in a unified manner. This stage of innovation is just unmatched out there.
Moreover, we’re fusing safety immediately into the material of the community. Agentic AI represents one of the crucial vital safety challenges of our lifetime. Our bulletins, equivalent to integrating our new campus sensible switches into our hybrid mesh firewall, introducing Cisco Stay Defend to deal with vulnerabilities with out community downtime, and enhancing deep telemetry integration with Splunk, are essential steps in addressing these challenges at machine-scale.
I’m extremely happy with the groups working with our prospects to redefine this house. We’re working with the pace of a startup and the size of an market chief. It’s due to these groups that Cisco is and can stay the undisputed market share chief in each switching and wi-fi networking.
Unmatched Scale
Within the final two years Cisco has unified our {hardware} platforms, licensing, and assist, beginning with wi-fi and now extending to switching and routing. We’ve additionally unified cloud administration for all our new and current units, sustaining our dedication to giving prospects alternative in cloud, on-premise, and hybrid administration.
Our options are the core of campus and department networks worldwide, powering 85% of Fortune 500 firms and serving each main trade. And, we join over 35 million community units to our administration platforms, and energy over 1 billion linked shoppers.
It is a new period for networking, and a major alternative for our prospects, enabling them to navigate the complexities of constructing AI Infrastructure with confidence and unparalleled safety. The improvements showcased at Cisco Stay characterize a basic leap ahead in how we take into consideration, construct, and function networks.
I’m extremely optimistic about what we’ll obtain collectively.
— Jeetu
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